Service station area on M6 north at Stafford, showing new Moto logo 2022

Service station area on M6 north at Stafford, showing new Moto logo 2022 Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JM9P53

File size:

52.6 MB (2.4 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5472 x 3360 px | 46.3 x 28.4 cm | 18.2 x 11.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

4 August 2022

Location:

Moto Stafford M6 North service station, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU

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. A grounded documentary photograph made at Moto Stafford M6 North service station, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Service station area on M6 north at Stafford, showing new Moto logo 2022. Further facets of the scene include transport accessibility, public transport stop, changing streetscape, regional identity, changing land use, public realm, community identity, period detail, historical comparison, visual archive, roadside stop, roadside transit, local mobility, and everyday life. Current relevance extends to reliability and bus service funding, particularly through how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at Moto Stafford M6 North service station, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU, details that may look very different after different community use. Other useful contextual ideas include public transport information, local bus network, bus route infrastructure, surface public transport, archival record, place identity, documentary photography, and street-side transport. Elements such as Service, station, showing, and Stafford add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Moto Stafford M6 North service station, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Its period value extends to reliability and the importance of bus stops as the physical interface between passengers and public transport when considered against later change at Moto Stafford M6 North service station, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2JM9P53.